Niax silicone L-580 can provide superior nucleating efficiency and can reduce striations in the foam bun when used in stretched formulations with high toluenediisocyanate, high water and high CO ₂ . It also has full hydrolytic stability and can be used as a separate stream or in water/amine/silicone preblends.

This additive generally works well on most commercially available CO ₂ equipment, including Cannon's CarDio ^† machine, Beamech's CO-2 ^† machine and Hennecke's NOVAFLEX ^† machine. In fact, most foams poured using Niax silicone L-580 on CO ₂ pilot scale equipment of the aforementioned brands achieved a finer, more uniform cell structure than the competitive product, and good density distribution as well

Potential applications for Niax silicone L-580 include:

• Extremely low-density foams that use liquid carbon dioxide as the blowing agent
• Furniture
• Bedding

For key features, typical benefits and physical properties, potential applications, and more, please download the marketing bulletin on this page.

*Niax is a trademark of Momentive Performance Materials Inc.

^† CarDio, CO-2 ^† and NOVAFLEX are trademarks of The Cannon Group, Beamech Group Ltd. and Hennecke GmbH, respectively